T.M. McNamara, Jr.
Hopr Corporation, Maryland, United States
Keywords: End-to-End Encryption, Automated Moving Target Defense, Decentralized Security, Continuous Identity Verification, Data Protection
Hopr provides an advanced automated cybersecurity solution for protecting cloud workloads and data in transit in all cloud environments. It developed a novel decentralized and quantum resistant encryption protocol that forms an Automated Moving-Target Defense (AMTD) around communicating workloads to disrupt threat actors before they can launch an attack. Hopr’s innovations address key vulnerabilities in traditional TLS-based security, such as static credential attacks and insufficient encryption coverage. The novel technology ensures continuous, end-to-end encryption and frequent identity trust verification of workloads, which prevents data loss, unauthorized access, and insider threats. As the US transforms to a digital economy and data-centric warfare capabilities, it faces challenges with the complexity of a vast number of cloud workloads, including an exploding number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The attack surface continues to grow. Sharing sensitive data with high trust, confidentiality, and integrity is paramount to US national security. Challenges also arise from peer-competitor nation states and their proxies with evolving cyber threat sophistication. The US must produce revolutionary innovations to gain an asymmetric advantage. Hopr’s addresses this with robust data loss prevention and assured trust workload access while simplifying deployment and maintenance and meeting stringent data protection requirements.